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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Audrey Marie Hilley, Alabama Escape Artist & Serial Killer - 1979

Audrey Marie Hilley (Alias: “Lindsay Robbi Hannon,” “Teri
Martin”), born June 4, 1933, was suspected of two murders: husband Frank
Hilley and mother Lucille Frazier and the attempted murder ofdaughter Carol Marie Hilley, which took place
between 1975 and 1979 in Anniston, Alabama. There has also suspicion that she
had been slow poisoning the children of her neighbors and police investigators
who had inspected sites of arson fires suspected to be set by Hilley.

The stories of Audrey Hilley’stwo escapes from the court and from prison
are among the most bizarre and dramatic in the entire history of female serial
killers.

The account of the case published by CrimeLibrary.com,
authored by Marlee Macleod, is an excellent overview. Below is a skeletal
chronology of this remarkable case.

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►Brief
Chronology:

May 25, 1975 – Frank Hilley, husband, dies.

1977 – Lucille Frazier, Marie’s mother, dies.

1979 – Daughter Carol Marie Hilley, 20, survived

Nov. 1979 – Carrie Hilley, mother-in-law, dies. Suspected
murder.

Neighbor children; poisoned, survived

Police & fire investigators – illness, suspicion of
poisoning

2 arson fires

Nov. 12 or 13, 1979 – on the lam
until Jan. 13 or 14, 1983

Feb. 22?, 1987 – on the lam for four days, causing her
death.

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FULL TEXT: Birmingham, Ala. – Audrey Marie Hilley – charged
with using arsenic to poison her daughter, who lived, and suspected of doing
the same to several other relatives, who didn’t – has been missing without a
trace almost one year.

The 19-state search for the woman is complicated by investigators’
growing suspicion that the Audrey Marie Hilley who disappeared from a
Birmingham motel last November may be quite a different person today.

The only thing Mrs. Hilley left behind at the motel was a
note. Investigators won’t release its contents, but say the scribbled message
makes them believe Mrs. Hilley is living a life where she “changes her
personality to fit her surroundings.”

“She can be kind, laughing, considerate and then brutal and
hateful,” said the FBI agent who is coordinating the coast-to-coast search for
Mrs. Hilley.

“We believe she is living in a world with make-believe
friends and enemies. ... When she reads this, if it’s the real Marie Hilley.
she will probably change her personality when she realizes what she is accused
of doing.”

The 47-year-old Anniston woman – charged with unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution for murder and attempted poisoning – is being
hunted coast-to-coast by the FBI and 28 other federal divisions.

The FBI warrant against Mrs. Hilley stems from a Calhoun
County indictment of Oct. 25. 1979, charging her with trying to poison her 20-
year-old daughter. Carol Marie Hilley. with arsenic.

On Nov. 16. Mrs. Hiliey disappeared from the suburban motel
where she was living while awaiting trial, free on $14,000 bond.

On Jan. 11, a Calhoun County grand jury indicted her on
murder charges for the 1975 arsenic poisoning of her husband. Frank. She has
also been indicted for check fraud.

The FBI agent, who asked not to be identified, has followed
several hundred leads since the search began in January, all in vain.

“It’s not likely I’ll arrest Marie Hilley. An agent in
another state will most likely arrest her,” he said. “But if the real Marie
Hilley reads this she will likely change her personality or relocate or get
careless and hopefully we’ll find her.”

The agent said that interviews with Mrs. Hilley’s friends
and relatives, whom Cheese and watches are Switzerland’s best-known exports.
However, the manufacture of machinery is its major industry. Switzerland’s industrial
output is so extensive that it holds an annual fair — well-attended by
industrialists all over the world – at Basel. she hasn’t contacted since
disappearing, have led him to believe she may be exhibiting separate
personalities.

He said she has used many aliases, among them Mandy Hilley,
Julie Hilley, M.F. Hilley and Margaret Key, the real name of her aunt.

It was about a year ago that Carol Hilley almost died in an
Alabama hospital. Her illness went undiagnosed for months until doctors
discovered higher than usual amounts of arsenic in her blood.

The diagnosis led forensic experts to exhume the bodies of
Frank Hilley, who died in 1975, and Mrs. Hilley’s mother, Lucille Frazier. who
died in 1977.

Death certificates indicated both died of cancer, but
pathologists found enough arsenic in Hilley’s remains to investigate. Arsenic
was also found in Mrs. Frazier’s body but in amounts below the toxic range.
Officials then ordered autopsies on other relatives.

Carrie Hilley, the fugitive’s mother-in-law, was ill for
sev- «ral weeks before dying last November. Her autopsy report has not been
released, but investigators have given evidence about her death and that of
Mrs. Frazier to a Calhoun County grand jury. No indictments have been returned
from that investigation.

The tests were made only on relatives who had died since
Carol Hilley’s birth. Psychiatrists think the birth may have touched off Mrs.
Hilley’s behavior.

Wed at age 18, she was having marital troubles when Carol,
her second child, was born. Psychiatrists and investigators alike believe she
resented her daughter’s birth, and that her resentment began surfacing long
before they had evidence of arsenic poisonings.

As examples, the FBI agent noted two arson fires at the
Hilley house, one when Frank Hilley was still alive, the second when Carol and
her grandmother were in the house alone.

Urine tests to detect any arsenic were also ordered for
people known to have visited the Hilley residence, including police who
investigated the fires.

“One time some investigators went to that house and
afterwards they became sick,” the agent said. “It’s possible they had been
given some type of poison.

“There was a family that lived next to her for years,” he
added. “The children were sick all the time, but doctors could never find out
why. ... ‘This family eventually moves and the kids get well in no time at
all.”

Investigators say they’ve determined the victims were given
small doses of arsenic over an extended period.

“It eventually breaks down your nervous system, you loose
control of your senses and you become unable to control your body movements,”
the agent said, describing Carol Hilley’s ordeal.

On the day Mrs. Hilley disappeared, Mrs. Key reported her
car missing. It was found at a Marietta, Ga., bus depot, but the FBI hasn’t yet
determined whether the fugitive boarded a bus there.

The FBI agent said Mrs. Hilley is likely working in “a
respectable job. She will be in secretarial work — she is a perfectionist and
wouldn’t take a job that low-rates her.”

“She’ll be living a good life,” he added. “She will be in a
beauty shop at least twice a week. She always dressed nice and her appearance
was pleasant... always.”

Hilley is 5-foot-l and weighs 110 pounds. Her eyes are
green, her hair brown. Her only identifying mark is a scar on a knuckle.

May 19, 1975 – Frank Hilley presents with nausea and pain in
his stomach area. After entering the hospital he passes away on May 25, 1975.
The cause of death at the time is listed as hepatitis. Audrey Marie Hilley then
collects over $30,000 in life insurance. She spends the insurance money
rapidly.

May 25, 1975 – Frank Hilley, husband, dies.

1977 – Lucille Frazier, Marie’s mother, dies.

Jul. 1978 – Marie Hilley takes out an insurance policy on
her daughter Carol Hilley in the amount of $25,000. Carol’s daughter is just a
teen at the time.

1979 – Daughter Carol Marie Hilley, 20, suffers from
numbness, nausea, and severe stomach pains. Her health declines over the next
several months. Her mother continues to give her injections. She tells Carol
not to tell anyone. Finally at the UAB Hospital in Birmingham, a doctor named
Dr. Brian Thompson states that Carol Hilley tested positive for arsenic
poisoning. After treatment she eventually begins to recuperate.

1979 – During this time Marie Hilley is arrested for writing
bad checks, and she is incarcerated for about 8 weeks. While she is
incarcerated the police start to gather evidence against Marie Hilley.

Oct. 3, 1979 – Forensic tests on
Carol’s hair conducted October 3, 1979, by the Alabama Department of Forensic
Sciences revealed arsenic levels ranging from over 100 times the normal level
close to the scalp to zero times the normal level at the end of the hair shaft.
This indicated that Carol had been given increasingly larger doses of arsenic
over a period of four to eight months.

Oct. 9, 1979 – Audrey Hilley was
still incarcerated on her bad check charges when she was arrested on October 9,
1979, for the attempted murder of her daughter.

Oct. 25, 1979 – Indicted for poisoning of daughter Carol.

Nov. 9?, 1979 – Marie Hilley is released on bond.

Nov.
11, 1979 – Wilford Lane, her attorney, took her to Birmingham to stay at a
motel. In the coming days she claimed she was afraid of reprisals from Frank’s
sisters and asked to be moved to another motel, from which she made numerous
phone calls to Mike and other relatives asking for money.

Nov. 12 or 13, 1979 – after
changing her hair color and losing weight, she returned to New Hampshire and
met John Homan, posing as Teri Martin, his “deceased” wife’s sister.

Nov.
18, 1979 – When Wilford Lane and his wife came to the motel to visit Marie,
they discovered she was missing.

Nov. 19, 1979 – There was a break-in at the home of Audrey
Hilley’s aunt. A car, some women’s clothing and an overnight bag were missing
from the home. Investigators found a note in the house reading, “Do not call
police. We will burn you out if you do. We found what we wanted and will not
bother you again.”

Jan. 11, 1980 – she was indicted
in absentia for her husband's murder. Subsequently, investigators found that
both her mother and her mother-in-law had significant, but not fatal, traces of
arsenic in their systems when they died.

Feb.
1980 – According to both Marie and John Homan, they met in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida in February of 1980.

Mar.
1980 – By March Marie Jilley and John Homan had moved in together. Using a
fictitious resume, Marie got a job as a secretary at an accounting firm in West
Palm Beach.

Oct.
1980 – In October she and John left Florida for New Hampshire, where John’s
brother Peter lived.

1982 – Hilley fakes the death of nonixtent twin sister (Teri
Hannon) of the alias character (Robbi Hannon) she created.

Jan. 13 or 14, 1983 – Vermont police capture Audrey Marie
Hilley. By now she has completely changed her appearance. She is a slim blonde
woman. She is arrested for unlawful flight, extradited, and quickly convicted
for the murder of her husband and attempted murder of her daughter Carol. She
is sentenced to life plus 20 years. While incarcerated she admits to another
inmate that she poisoned her husband and daughter.

Jan. 19, 1983. –
Authorities brought Marie back to Anniston on January 19, 1983. By now another
charge had been added -- the murder of Frank Hilley -- and Marie’s bond was set
at $320,000. This time no one stepped forward to pay it.

Jun. 8, 1983 – Marie Hilley is convicted and Sentenced to life in prison for
her husband’s murder and 20 years for attempting to kill her daughter in June
1983. She spends her time in prison quietly and is considered a model
prisoner.

Jun.
9, 1983 – Marie entered Tutwiler State Women’s Prison in Wetumpka, Alabama. She
was assigned a job as a data processor and was classified as a medium security
prisoner.

1985
– Despite reports that she talked constantly of escape and had reportedly made
plans for a break out, she was reclassified in 1985 as a minimum security
prisoner, which made her eligible for passes and leaves from the prison.

1986
– In late 1986 her first eight-hour pass was approved. That pass and three
others came and went with no trouble; Marie returned to Tutwiler promptly each
time.

Feb.
19, 1987 – she left Tutwiler Prison for the last time after qualifying for a
three-day furlough.

1987
–John Homan had relocated to Anniston,
and he and Marie spent the weekend in a hotel room there. On Sunday morning she
told John that she wanted to visit her parents’ graves and would meet him at
10:00 a.m. at a local restaurant. She wasn’t there. Returning to the hotel
room, John found a note. “I hope you will be able to forgive me,” it read. “I’m
getting ready to leave. It will be best for everybody. We’ll be together again.
Please give me an hour to get out of town.” Marie wrote that a man named Walter
was taking her out of town and that she would fly to Canada and contact John
later. John called the sheriff. Given Marie’s history, authorities assumed she
had a well-crafted plan of escape and had left the state quickly. No one
expected what happened next.

Feb. 22?, 1987 –While on a one day pass
for good behavior, Hilley escapes. She spends 4 days in the freezing rain in a
wooded area.

Feb. 26, 1987 – The police respond to a suspicious person
call. Marie Hilley is found freezing, numb, and suffering from hypothermia.
Hilley dies at the local hospital from hypothermia.